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perception and language and consciousness,
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This review is from: Flying in Water (Paperback)
The long poem Flying in Water is a delightful read. Edward Smallfield says in his high praise on the back of the book the following: "Here, there is no firm line of demarcation between language and consciousness or between either and the facts of life that elude both." Language in Flying in Water is used to track perception as it shifts and eludes--we are brought into seeing itself and we are brought into an interior life without seeing--what we perceive when direct image is cancelled out: "She closes her eyes sensing how she is contained/A mollusk in a too small shell" There is a sense of exploration with this character "she"--a universal voyage that is deeply satisfying. While reading the poems--prose poems really--one can feel one's own tenuous presence -- one's own body and mind moving through the minutes. How can looking so closely and constructing existance with language feel so rich and reassuring? We are all flying in water when it comes to language and capturing consciousness, capturing uncapturable reality. This book rather than trying to capture it, invites its ever shifting terraine. So rich, so well written!
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Flying In Water by Barbara Tomash (Paperback - December 15, 2007)
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